Neckpiece

ABSTRACT

A neckpiece or cravat which includes an elongated neckencircling band and a body piece is disclosed. The band, when folded once upon the body piece, may be fastened around the neck of a wearer without exposing the band at the front of the neckpiece and without the fasteners being exposed.

United tes atent 1 1 A 1111 3,775,776 Smith, Jr. 1 Dec. 4, 1973 [54]NECKPIECE 1,360,488 11 1920 Zurcher 2 155 3,261,025 7/1966 Simek 2 149[76] Inventor:' Charles A. Smith, Jr., Box 574 Chenago Lake Rd.,Norwich, NY. 13815 Primary ExaminerPatrick D. Lawson Attrney-Spensley,Horn & Lubitz [22] Filed: Feb. 5, 1973 [21] Appl. No.: 329,439

[57] ABSTRACT [2%] (31. 153351;; A neckpiece or cram which includes anelongated d 4 155 149 neck-encircling band and a body piece isdisclosed. 1 w 0 The band, when folded once upon the body piece,

2/148 145 may be fastened around the neck of a wearer without exposingthe band at the front of the neckpiece and [56] References Citedwithoutthe fasteners being exposed.

UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,613,117 10/1971 Gingerich 2/149 2 Claims,Drawing Figures 20 14 1s L 1 2 1 1 I11. 1 11 11 1 G3 r .1. 15 LNECKPIECE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention Theinvention relates todecorative neckpieces, such as ties, cravats, ascotsand the like.

2. Prior Art Decorative neckpieces are often worn around the neck tofill and adorn the opening formed by a coat, jacket, shirt or the like.Many neckpieces, such as ascots and the common necktie, require somephysical dexterity in order to tie a presentable knot. In someneckpieces knots are pre-tied and the neckpiece is attached to thewearer with a band which generally remains unexposed beneath the collar.

The present invention discloses a neckpiece which includes a widedecorative body piece which may be readily attached to the neck of thewearer without requiring the tieing of a knot or the concealing of anunsightly band.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A neckpiece or cravat which includes anelongated cloth neck-encircling band, is disclosed. A decorative bodypiece for adorning the front of the wearer is attached to the lower edgeof the neck-band at approximately one edge of the band. In the presentlypreferred embodiment one part of a Velcro fastener is attached to onesurface of the neck-band at one end of the band while the other part ofthe fastener is attached to the opposite surface of the neck-band at theother end of the band. The neckpiece is placed on the wearer by firstfolding the band once upon the body piece and placing the neck-bandaround the neck such that the fasteners may meet beneath the body piece.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 illustrates the inventedneckpiece, while being worn.

FIG. 2 is a view of the neckpiece taken through section line 22 of FIG.1.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the neckpiece taken through sectionline 3-3 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the neckpiece and also illustrates the positionof the neck-band when the neckband is folded upon the body piece.

FIG. 5 is a general perspective view of the neckpiece which illustratesthe manner in which the fasteners are attached once the. neck-encirclingband has been placed around the neck of the wearer.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Referring first to FIG. 4, theneckpiece includes an elongated neck-encircling band and a body piece11, partially shown in FIG. 4. The neck-encircling band 10 is utilizedto support the body piece on the wearer while the body piece 11 isplaced typically in the opening of a coat or jacket such as shown inFIG. 1.

In the presently preferred embodiment the entire neckpiece is made ofcloth, such as a cloth having a decorative pattern or print. Preferablythe neck-band and the body piece include the same pattern or print.

Referring to all the figures, the neck-band 10 is made from an elongatedpiece of cloth, folded on itself such that the fold forms the upper edge15 of the neckthe open end of the fold such that when the low edge 16 ofthe band is sewn, the body piece 11 extends downwardly from theneck-band 10 and is attached to the neck-band. Pellum is included withinthe folded cloth used to form the neck-band 10 in order to add body tothe neck-band. The pellum is stitched on both sides of the band toprevent curling during the washing process.

As is best illustrated in FIG. 1 in phantom lines, the body piece 11should be large enough to fill the opening defined by a coat, such asopening 17, defined by lapels l8 and collar 19. Preferably the bodypiece should extend downward beneath the opening 17 of the coat asufficient distance to assure that the lower edge of the body piece 11will not become exposed, approximately 15 inches below the neck-band.The body piece 11, when sewn into the band I0 of the presently preferredembodiment, is sewn so as to include a plurality of pleats 12 whichappear as natural folds. Also in the presently preferred embodiment thebody piece 11 is sewn to the band 10 near one end of the band such asend 20 illustrated in FIG. 4.

While metal fasteners or other fasteners may be used,

in the presently preferred embodiment a fastener which comprisessynthetic pads which adhere to one another when pressed together, isutilized. This fastening means is commercially available and sold underthe trademark Velcro. This fastener includes a first section, shown assection 13, which includes a plurality of closely spaced hook membersand a second portion 14 which includes a plurality of loops. When member13 is pressed against member 14 they adhere to one another although theymay be readily manually pulled apart. The first portion 13 is sewn toone end of theband 10 on the surface of band 10 which is the samegeneral surface as the front or decorated surface of body piece 11. Thesecond portion 14 of the fastener is disposed at the other end 20 of theband 10 on the opposite surface of the band.

In order to wear the neckpiece, the band lO-is first folded once uponthe body piece, as illustrated in FIG. 4, by band 10. Note that afterthe fold, the lower edge 16 of the band then becomes the upper edge ofthe entire neckpiece, including the body piece 11. After this fold ismade the band is.not visible above the body piece 11. Next, theneck-encircling band 10 is placed around the neck and the fastenersections 13 and 14 are joined. When this occurs the neckpiece will besupported from the neck. As may be best seen in FIG. 5, once section 13of the fastener is brought in contact with section 14, the entirefastening means is concealed, both by the body piece 11 and by the band10. Thus,once on a wearer, and as illustrated in FIG. 3, the fasteningmeans is confined between the ends of band 10 and does not come incontact with the body of the wearer, assuring that the'neckpiece may beworn in comfort.

Thus, a neckpiece has been disclosed which may be readily made fromcloth and which may be placed on the wearer without tieing any knots andwithout having any fastening means exposed.

I claim: 1. A neckpiece comprising: an elongated cloth neck-encirclingband having an upper and lower edge and a first and second surface, saidband comprising an elongated length of cloth, folded on itself to formsaid upper edge;

a body piece for wearing around the neck of a said band onsaid secondsurface of said band;

wearer, Said Piece bfiing Sewn to the lower g of whereby said band maybe folded once upon said said band at approximately one end of said bandand extending into the open end of said fold of said band; a firstVelcro fastener means, attached to the other I end of said band on saidfirst surface of said band; The neckpiece defined m clam 1 wherem Sald aecond Velcro fastener means for engaging aid piece includes pleatsextending from Said band.

first fastener means, attached to said one end of becomes an upper edgeof said neckpiece and then fastened around the neck of a wearer.

body piece such that said lower edge of said band

1. A neckpiece comprising: an elongated cloth neck-encircling bandhaving an upper and lower edge and a first and second surface, said bandcomprising an elongated length of cloth, folded on itself to form saidupper edge; a body piece for wearing around the neck of a wearer, saidpiece being sewn to the lower edge of said band at approximately one endof said band and extending into the open end of said fold of said band;a first Velcro fastener means, attached to the other end of said band onsaid first surface of said band; a second Velcro fastener means, forengaging said first fastener means, attached to said one end of saidband on said second surface of said band; whereby said band may befolded once upon said body piece such that said lower edge of said bandbecomes an upper edge of said neckpiece and then fastened around theneck of a wearer.
 2. The neckpiece defined in claim 1 wherein said bodypiece includes pleats extending from said band.